Sources

Data sources and licences

Boundaries and postcode areas

Municipal boundaries (565 municipalities, situation 2025) and postcode areas: © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). We simplified the shapes for fast display; postcode areas are approximate.

Population and area

Population on 1 January 2024 and official area per municipality: Statbel (Belgian statistical office), as published by Eurostat in the Local Administrative Units (LAU) 2024 tables. Eurostat statistics may be reused with acknowledgement of the source. For the municipalities that merged on 1 January 2025 we added up the figures of the former municipalities.

Names

Names in English, Dutch, French and German: Wikidata (CC0). NIS codes from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.

Using our maps

You may use the maps on this site, including the SVG downloads, for any purpose, also commercially, provided you credit: “Map: mapofbelgium.be · © OpenStreetMap contributors”. The downloadable files already contain this credit.

Distances

Distances are great-circle distances (as the crow flies) between the geographic centres of the municipalities, calculated by us.